We compared Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: When comparing Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS, Azure is praised for its manageable setup, support, and documentation. It offers a wide range of features, an intuitive interface, and strong integration with other Microsoft solutions. However, it may be challenging for beginners and lacks user-friendliness in certain aspects. On the other hand, AWS provides quick deployment, extensive features, and strong integration capabilities. Users appreciate its scalability, reliability, and cost-effectiveness. However, some users find AWS pricing to be high and suggest improvements in areas like user interface, security, and billing.
"It is easy to spin up resources."
"The solution has very good Lambda functions within AWS."
"I like S3, load balancers, and Route 53."
"The most valuable features are how stable and easy to use Amazon AWS is."
"This solution is used as the basic requirement for any virtual machines use cases, the storage is used for each use case."
"AWS is stable."
"The main feature that I like the most is the variety of solutions that it provides. It provides some analysis, business information and more. It provides a wide variety of services."
"AWS has many integrations and plenty of tools available for anyone to take advantage of. There are new features being added all the time."
"The most valuable feature of Microsoft Azure is it has everything together in one place. It is one large tool with lots of small tools that are updated often."
"The solution's technical support was very good."
"The solution is very simple to set up."
"The redundancy across different regions is the most valuable. It provides a big value for cloud services, especially for Microsoft."
"The time to market is fast compared back to the traditional on-premise hosting. That is one of the better things I can say because there is no need to worry. The Pack services will enable it to start immediately."
"The product provides a host of security tools."
"It's a reasonably priced solution."
"Its scalability is valuable. Depending on our requirements, we can add as many virtual machines as we want. We are able to get high availability for services. Services are always available, and they have the maximum uptime. If there is any issue with one of the services, another service is always available. It is pay-as-you-go. You don't have to spend any money upfront. You use the service and pay after one month or a couple of hours of use."
"It should be easier to monitor the performance and generate analytic information so that we can determine how to provide better support for our clients."
"There should be improvement in terms of creating databases of varying sizes which would provide flexibility."
"The pricing is expensive"
"Amazon AWS should integrate AI capabilities."
"Monitoring still needs to be improved."
"Recently we had a long conversation about functionality that is missing in Alexa — in Mexico, specifically. Alexa for Business is a service and platform that Americans can use to make a call to an Amazon Echo device or a telephone via the app. But in Mexico, we are not allowed to use that technology. This is a significant disadvantage of AWS for those living in Mexico."
"The billing should be more competitive."
"In terms of improvement, they should try to give more emphasis to the VoIP system."
"Improving transparency in billing is crucial for us. Understanding how billing works only becomes clear once we start using the services. A more accurate billing calculator would help us anticipate costs associated with using specific services."
"They need to make storage easy and offer more interconnectivity between solutions."
"Azure ARM console can be a bit overwhelming at the beginning."
"The permissions and controls in the product are not easy to use."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"The pricing needs to be a bit lower. It's an expensive solution right now."
"The solution should emulate what MuleSoft is doing. At the moment MuleSoft has a lot of other features compared to Azure API integration."
"If you compare it with AWS, it is not very friendly to use. I find the UI better to work with on AWS."
Amazon AWS is ranked 2nd in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 250 reviews while Microsoft Azure is ranked 1st in Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS) with 298 reviews. Amazon AWS is rated 8.4, while Microsoft Azure is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Amazon AWS writes "Reliable with good security but is difficult to set up". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Azure writes "Promotes clear, logical structures preventing impractical configurations and offers seamless integration ". Amazon AWS is most compared with Linode, OpenShift, SAP Cloud Platform, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) and Pivotal Cloud Foundry, whereas Microsoft Azure is most compared with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Google Firebase, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, SAP Cloud Platform and OpenShift. See our Amazon AWS vs. Microsoft Azure report.
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